OUT OF REACH.
The discomforts and disadvantages of excessive obesity are many. A curious and pathetic example is thus recorded by an exchange : * What has become of the big man who used to beat the bass drum ?’ the leader of a military band was asked. * Oh, he left us more than three months ago.’ '(food man, wasn't het' * Yes, first rate; but he got so fat that when he inarched he couldn't bit the drum in the middle.'
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue VII, 17 February 1894, Page 159
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78OUT OF REACH. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue VII, 17 February 1894, Page 159
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